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EMBO REPORTS
Volume 6, Issue 8, Pages 729-735Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400465
Keywords
bisdioxopiperazines; DNA catenanes; DNA replication; nucleosomes; topoisomerase II
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DNA topoisomerase II (topo II) is involved in unlinking replicating DNA and organizing mitotic chromosomes. Topo II is the target of many antitumour drugs. Topo II inhibition results in extensive catenation of newly replicated DNA and may potentially perturb chromatin assembly. Here, we show that the topo II inhibitor ICRF-193 does not prevent the bulk of nucleosome deposition, but perturbs nucleosome spacing in Xenopus egg extracts. This is due to the trapping of topo II-closed clamps on the DNA rather than increased DNA catenation. inhibition of replicative DNA decatenation has in itself little or no effect on nucleosome deposition and spacing, suggesting that DNA can easily accommodate the sharp bending constraints imposed by the co-habitation of nucleosomes and catenane nodes. Chromatin perturbation by topo II clamps may explain some dominant cellular effects of ICRF-193. Nucleosome-driven bending of precatenane nodes may facilitate their unlinking by topo II during unperturbed replication.
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